I'm not a big fan of most silent films, but this one just got me good. I really enjoyed it and empathized with Dawes throughout. Sadly the prison system in the US has reverted back to this kind of savagery almost stopping just short of forced harsh labor and floggings but teeters ever so closely to it on a daily basis.

Thank you so much for uploading this. I watched and loved the totally absorbing and gripping TV series of this story when it aired here in the UK in the early 1980s, and it had stayed in my memory as a TV classic ever since. I kept hoping it would be repeated so that I could record it, as I did not have a VCR back in those days, but no luck, and attempts to find it in later years commercially on either VHS or DVD were also fruitless. Then two months ago I found one DVD copy of it on eBay Australia and was overjoyed to buy it and watch it all again.

Then along comes this upload, and it has been fascinating to see how the early movie and the modern TV series compare, picking out bits that are remarkably alike and those that are very different. This too is a very gripping film and it is only a pity that, having been made so close to the beginning of the talkies, it didn't get made as a talkie. But as silent films go, this is very well produced and its large budget does show.

Highly recommended.